The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1887-11-25

diCh, sue says, "SldIl we return n
- think | should like TO Drift this
way forever,' he sayss
''NO you wOuldn'tp she returns,
'Ihere is Il dam two miles below
here, aud if you undertook to drift
ever as We are- drifting now You
might DRIFT into eternity"
Phillip is too provoked to reply
Miss Holme either takes his words
too literally or twists them into
something he does not mean; she
seems determined not to under
stand, and he rows back almost in
silence.
II am going TO town Tomorrow y
he said to his hostess, Mrs. Dean ;
"a party OF my friends write me
from a little place called Nanseau,
III Italy, to join them there and 90
to Lake Como"
'We shalt miss you," Mrs. Dean
replies.
lie glanced across to Miss HoIme !;
she is Spreading jelly on h ead for
" young Deah, and fOr nausht he
can tell, has not heard 1t word.
Without douat this country school.
teacher, with her high-bred face,
her diamond watch, aud her su-
prcme indifference TO Mr. Carlick,
is new sensation 10 that Gentle
man.
Later in the evening they are sill
,lns with others in the parlor. Miss
lloImc, rising, says: "GOod night,
Mr.. Carrick; rs yOu 60 earl in the
morning l shall not see yoa asaii.'
There Were people looking on E:
he had meaut to have had differ
ent parting, but she has willpd 9th
erwise; he holds her hand in his.
says "GoOd bye" the words hal;
choking hiuI, and she is gone.
A week later she is back in her
old place teaching a score of yellow
barred children. She is more lovely
than ever; more bitter than ever
she has not done right, she is nos |
doing right how can she be happy |
Alfred Crosby aud Phillip Car
rick are sitting by the lake. Alfred
aud Philip are old friends.
Alfred breaks the silence by re-.
"II strikes me, Phil that
this "trip has not benefited you;
You are pale and thin; YOU look as
if you haii the dyspepsia or were in
love. HoUor bright, old fellow, dId
you fall in love while out of my
sight 2"
"Suppose l did, what then ~ asks
Philip.
"But who on earth could you have
met here 10 captIvale you ? Was it
the daughter OF that noble gypsy
or Il Norwegian git! They are
about all the women I've seen since
| started on this drip"
ooh, quit YOU nonsense 9' replies
Philip. al stayed a month Mt Stony
Point before coming here, if you
choose to rememberp
'But, my dear boy, there was no.
body lheIe.7
"On the contrary, there were
many nice people there, amOug
them a Miss HOlme, who WAS ex
ceptionally 'nice::'"
sob, the misehiefw springing off
his teet. "What does she look like I
Describe her"
Mr. Carrick wonders if any one
IAN do that adequately, bur he says
She Il slender aud petite, has the
hands l ever saw, great
gray eyes, chestnut hair and the
;Oldest, haughiieSL manner ] ever /
observed. She is teaching a coun.
ry school,"
"Well," remarks Alfred, ''did she ,
wear any jewelry-anythiug notice I,
lble, | mean I" L
"She always wears blue enam- 4
led watch set with diamonds,' re. G
urns Philip. AZ noticed It, because I
ountry school teachers don't gem c
rally possess watches worth hun. I
lred ysunds." I
II should think not y retOrts Alf. ,
We'll, my boy, | am convinced that {
he is Baron Payne's niece, and 4
Ieiress to all his property. He lives 4
It st. BRIDES; when l was there 4
asst winter sbe was a great belle.
She took immensely just because /
he was so utterly Indifferent to +
iverybody. The baron has :
lepbew who is a gambler aud ev- +
ry thing else that's bad F; he paid h
ssiduOus court to Miss HOlme aud :
net with no success. He wanted 4
he girls mOney-She had plenty in =
Ter own rigbt-and Orna hated I
Iim. Finally Que night he proposed; :
be rejected him sOrrowfully. She
5 younger than sbelOOkS, educated
u a convent In France, and not :
cry we'll verSed in the ways OF the
TOrld. The scou6drel, furious at {
.aving failed, turned on ber, told J
er that she was a pauper, that she t
ad no claim on BanOn payne's 7
'ounty, being ouly a Waif be had D
AIRED for, aud there is no knowing b
that else he may have said. She a
lust have been yearly distracted. q
leenly sensitive aud terribly proud, /
enough she never stopped g
D question what be told her, bat b
akiUg a few things that we're her
wn, amobg them The watch which (
ad been her mothers. she left the
Ouse that uirhf. leaving a note 10